The Influence of American Culture on Education

As we all know, there is no America without immigrants, and there is no American-led multiculturalism without immigrant culture. The individualistic values of American culture believe that everything is related to personal attacks. The following is the influence of American culture on everyone's education. I hope it will help you!

American cultural traditions are complex and changeable, among which applicability, individualism and multiculturalism have a prominent impact on the development and change of American society and have a great impact on American pedagogy.

1, applicability

Applicability, as a native American philosophy, is the product of American economic and social development in the late19th century. Applicability has become the most influential philosophical trend of thought since the 20th century because it reflects the American social thought of pursuing freedom, equality and efficiency. Representative figures are Pierce, william james and Dewey. The core idea is to pay attention to practical results, care about applicable value and not advocate empty talk.

The main contents are:

① Pay attention to experience. Applicability pays attention to experience, opposes dogmatism and metaphysics, and holds that knowledge and understanding of everything are based on experience. Applicability refers to experience that is different from the traditional empirical theory. According to the empirical view of applicability, thinking and reasoning are the talents cultivated by organisms in the process of dealing with problems in order to adapt to the environment. Experience is a unified whole formed in this process, and it is the general name of all wisdom accumulated by people in theoretical activities. The traditional empirical theory holds that experience is limited to cognitive activities under the influence of feeling, which is opposite to rational cognitive activities.

2 pay attention to the action. Applicability pays attention to action, opposes mechanical solution theory, and holds that there is no eternal cosmic order and absolute fallacy in the world. In an ideal life, people have equal opportunities, and the key to survival lies in individual choice, pursuit, struggle and development. One can neither rely on past successful experience, nor hope on existing theories, let alone pray for an illusory God. He can only stand in action, assess the situation in action and be good at seizing opportunities.

(3) only seek practical results. Applicability takes efficacy as the criterion to judge value and fallacy. It takes efficacy as the center and takes efficacy as the standard to judge value and fallacy. It believes that ideas, concepts and theories are just like tools, and their value lies not in themselves, but in the results they can cultivate. Since fallacy is efficacy, it is the kind of efficacy that ideas or theories consider feasible and devote themselves to transformation.

2, individualism

The word individualism has been criticized in our culture for a long time, but in American culture, it has no moral defects, people have no ill feelings about it at all, and it is also very serious. It should be emphasized that individualism or egoism in American culture is different from narrow egoism in our cultural environment. The former emphasizes individual independence and creativity, and emphasizes that individuals can freely carry out and serve themselves, and are not or less bound by social, political and religious rights. Then the latter is a selfish attitude, concept and behavior that ignores the interests of others. In practice, the center of individualism in American culture is not selfishness, but mutual benefit and voluntariness.

On the whole, the individualistic values of American culture believe that everything is related to personal attacks, emphasizing personal independence, personal dignity, personal freedom and equal opportunity. Everyone has his own independent personality characteristics, and the existence of individuals should be recognized and respected. The individual ego is regarded as an independent whole, separated from others and the whole world. Americans emphasize individual initiative, independence and obligation, and believe that as long as they have these, a person will not be respected as a person. Individuals should have their own inner center of gravity, a set of principles and in-depth beliefs about personal values. Therefore, Americans attach great importance to personal achievements and victories. Those fixed and hereditary social classes are despised by birth, while those positions obtained through independent motivation and hard work are respected. Individualism has added a lot of vitality to the American nation and certainly strengthened their "cultural egoism".

3. Conflict and integration of multiculturalism.

As we all know, there is no America without immigrants, and there is no multicultural America without immigrant culture. The diversity of American culture is inclusive because of its universal spread, and it enriches me by absorbing the outstanding achievements of various cultural inventions in the world.

4. "America is born" to illustrate the complexity and diversity of American culture.

The United States not only has people of all races, nationalities and ethnicities in the world, but also has ideological and cultural achievements of various cultures. American multiculturalism shows the superiority of cross-culture in many fields. For example, Americans absorbed the wisdom of modern European thinkers, established the American ideological value system, and appeared thinkers such as Franklin and Jefferson; African-Americans showed their excellent qualities in sports, music and other fields, and created jazz with American characteristics. American political critic Paine, the first Treasury Secretary Hamilton, the great entrepreneur Carnegie and Bill Gates are all immigrants.

5, strengthen the summary and punishment of social theory work, and promote the promotion and transformation of theoretical achievements.

It is suggested that colleges and universities should strengthen school-level excellent awards and evaluation, give corresponding material rewards to excellent social theory organizations, instructors, teams and individuals on the basis of decoupling from the number of teams, and take certain encouragement measures to encourage outstanding theoretical players in that year to participate in social theory activities in the next year, thus playing the role of inheritance, assistance and teaching. At the same time, it is proposed to further strengthen the propaganda of social theory achievements, brand social theory special reports and push them to the society, publicize typical cases and advanced deeds of college students' social theory to the society, and create a good atmosphere for college students' social theory work.